Alburnus arborella
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Leuciscidae |
| Subfamily: | Leuciscinae |
| Genus: | Alburnus |
| Species: | A. arborella |
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Alburnus arborella, the alborella or Italian bleak, is a species of freshwater fish in the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces. minnows and related fishes This fish is found in northern Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Slovenia and Croatia.
Alburnus arborella was first formally described as Aspius arborella in 1841 by the French biologist and art collector Charles Lucien Bonaparte with its type locality given as the lakes of northern Italy. This taxon has been regarded as a subspecies of the common bleak (A. alburnus) but is now regarded as a valid species.[3] The genus Alburnus is classified within the subfamily Leuciscinae of the family Leuciscidae.[4]
Etymology
Alburnus arborella belongs to the genus Alburnus a name derived from the Latin for whitefish but it also refers to the bleak, a name which means pale in English, in reference to the pale non lustrous colour of A. alburnus. The specific name, arborella, is thought to be a misspelling of alborella, the Italian common name for this fish.[5]
